Chapter 3

"Ashu! "Wake up, you're going to be late.

"Hmm... just 5 more minutes."

"I said, wake up! It's 9 a.m., damn it. "Wake up!!"

"What the!?"

"Good morning, sleeping princess. Do you have any idea what time it is right now? No, I don't think you do, do you? "

"Ugh...Danny, please stop nagging; why can't you wake me up like normal? You don't have to throw a bucket of water every time you come to wake me up. "

"Sure, I can do that. That is if you sleep like a normal person. Do you have any idea how hard it is to wake you up? Well, let's stop chit-chat. Don't you have to pick your spirit up from 'Dr? K' by 8:30 am? "

"Yeah... don't tell me!! What time is it right now? "

"9 am"

"Shit!! I'm late! I'm late! " As I heard the time, my senses came to me, and I jumped from my bed and headed straight toward "Dr K's" office.

"...!! Wait to wear something appropriate before you leave."

"Sorry, don't have time. I will return in a few hours, so please prepare something good to eat and my lunch. Bye... " I said while wearing the shoe.

"...' sigh', dear lord. like a grandfather, like a grandson. They are two peas in a pod. "

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I started running at full speed without holding anything back. If someone were to look at me, they wouldn't be able to pinpoint my exact position. Not only that, with the speed I was running, even the fastest animal, the cheetah was like a turtle in front of me.

"I swear, why do we even have to live on this mountain? I mean, there's not even a soul around this region. The only jungle is spread around up to a few miles. "

"Curse!!

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"Even with my speed, it will take about an hour to reach Lucia city."

I inhaled deeply, closed my eyes, and exhaled all the air present in my lungs. This gave me an outburst of instant power to my legs and my speed increased two times my initial seed.

I could feel the pressure exerted by the air on my face due to my velocity.

I repeated the whole process at equal intervals of time, whenever I felt my speed decrease.

Due to the method, I arrived at the gates of Lucia city in half an hour.

This city is situated at the base of the mountain Mt Kurobo, where I live with grandpa and Uncle Kureha.

  From what I heard; Danny lives in this city with her own small family. You cannot call this place a city by the looks of it because the size of this whole city is comparable to a small village with about 200 people living in it.

This city has about 350 people living in it and the major occupation are teaching,  carpentry, sowing,  selling goods like fruits, vegetables, clothes etc. 

I was tired, too tired to even move my feet. But I still collected all my breath and moved my body.

Upon entering the city, I looked around and what can I tell is that majority of males were either selling goods, working in a carpentry shop or House builders. Females, on the other hand, were teachers, regular housewives, or own small shop to sell some stuff I don't know that much about. 

I tried to remember where the doctor's office was located. The last time I came here was about a year ago for an errand. It was due to Danny's being injured.

I don't why but grandpa doesn't allow me to leave Mt kurobo, well now that I'm at that age I can do whatever I want.

"Hmm... from what I can remember, I think it was around here somewhere."

"Oh! Here it is, finally! "

I stood in front of a shack and looked at the big horizontal beat-up old board that barely hung at the top of the little house.

"He still is a cheapskate. Couldn't he at least renovate this rundown place?"

'Sigh'

Seriously...

I held the doorknob and moved it, as I opened the door and enter, out of nowhere a sharp knife came flying straight at me. If it hadn't been for my heightened reflex, the knife would have gouged my eyes out.

"What the heck!!?" I ducked and the knife hit the wall behind me. It barely touched my hair but that still was scary.

"Can't you even do one damn job properly!! Every time I see you, you laze around like a lazy bum! All you do is give the fucking orders!" a lady in her mid-thirties shouting at the thin man with scrambled dark grey hair, dressed in a white lab coat with a big spectacle on his nose.

The man was none other than doctor K and the lady with a loud voice is her wife. 

"I would've died!! If that had hit. And I already said, I'm sorry, what else do you want from me?"

"Ahem."

"Oh!! Ashu, you are finally here. What great timing! Come-come! "

"What's going on?" I asked hesitantly, I remember Danny saying 'always remain quiet when a woman is angry.' 

"Nothing's much; she's on her periods."

Smash!!

Good lord!! The table!? With just one hand… if it was him… let's not got go there.

"Shut... the fuck... up!!"

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'... scary-scary, girls are scary!!' I thought, gulping the saliva forming inside my mouth.

"C-come... Let's go down the stairs."

"S-Sure..."

We headed towards the underground room. It was dark. Upon entering, the whole stairs lit up automatically.

"Umm... If you don't mind me asking, why are you dressed like that and why were you so late? I remember clearly that I asked you to come at 8:30 in the morning."

"Huh!!"  I looked down, and I was shocked. I mean, how much of an idiot am I to arrive city without any shirt on?

"Sorry doc, you see... Last night, Grandpa and I had a little spar, and he beat the crap out of me.

I was so tired that...

"I get it. Pairs of feathers flock together." "Seriously, you are too much like your grandfather."

"I know, I already heard that too many times." By the way, what was that? I thought I was done for. What happened?"

He sighed then said: "Before you came, Sina told me to fix the cabinet, but unfortunately, I broke the whole thing into pieces. Then she asked me to get the vegetables from the nearby vendor and I lost her bike then."

"Hahaha... seriously... you...Ha-ha... "

"..."

Upon reaching downstairs, the Room lit up with bright lights, I looked around and the whole place was filled with a lot of devices and machinery equipment, more than I could count.

"So, have you decided which spirit you want?"

"Yep!! I thought about it and I came up with Skira, a plant-based spirit weapon class Dagger. "

"Hmm... well, I'm sorry for you, but a kid just like you came before you got that."

"What the..." Well, it's my fault for being late.

"Hmm... what about Aquilian? "

"... That was also given to a kid who was on time. Sorry..."

"..."

Sigh... I deserved the first one, but now this. What should I do now?

"Now what, what should I do?" I asked, I cannot leave the island without a spirit weapon, grandpa would kill me.

"Too bad...One second off can change your life. "

"I know... Don't you have any weapons that I can take on my journey? I mean, how am I supposed to fight with other spirit users? Don't you have anything to add?

Anything will do, please do help me here. "

"There's one thing, but..." doc voice trailed off as I heard him saying one thing, I excitedly begged him to give me, I will do with anything. It's not like beggars can be chooser.

"Give it to me, please!"

As he heard my request, he thought for a few minutes, then he went towards a machine that was stuck on the wall. The machine was about half my size.

There was a numerical lock on it, and he entered the passcode into it.

Upon entering the digits, the machine opened and inside the glass panel, there was a silvery scythe with a black blade placed in it.

The scythe was pure black; even the blade was pure black and silver patterns were stitched on the hilt.

"Cool, scythe. How can you hide this sort of weapon from me? How did you get your hand on this, bad baby? " I asked, as I was drawn towards the weapon. Something inside me… I don't know how to explain it.

"It's not that I wanted to hide, it's just... It's not a spirit and I got it from an auction at a very cheap price. " Doc said.

"If it's not a spirit weapon, then it's a useless piece of junk." All the excitement I was feeling before was now sullied upon hearing this weapon is not spirit weapon.

"You brat! At least let me finish before you say something. And for your information, it's not entirely useless. You can still hurt the other spirits and spirit users with it. " the doc replied.

"So, what's the problem?" I asked.

"Well... isn't your speciality is hand-to-hand combat and this scythe doesn't have any special attacks, so to even hurt your enemies, you have to strike them with it." He answered while looking toward the scythe.

"Oh! No problem, it's not like beggars can be choosers, so... I'll take it. " who cares about flashy moves and attack, all it needs to do is protect me from my opponents.

"Then so be it... here."

The glass panel opened and then he handed me the scythe. Upon me holding the weapon, I observed this bad boy.

On close inspection, I was surprised by the weight, which is much lighter, than it looked. Now that it was in my hand, the blade was not even reflecting any specks of light, and studying the blade more closely, I spotted a small engraving inscribed on the blade near the grip.

Twilight by D. Stalin

"Huh... Fuck!?"

A searing pain abruptly shot out from where I was gripping the scythe, making me drop the weapon.

There was a gash that had already been cauterised across my palm. I was hesitant to pick the weapon back up again, but when I did, I could see the faint remains of my blood getting absorbed into the handle of the scythe.

"What the?! How did you do that? " Doc asked in surprise like he has seen a ghost.

"I-I don't know…" I replied, not knowing what it was.

"Do you have any idea of what type of material was used to make this or who made this? "

"No, I tried to see the register but on that, I found out that the man who put this on auction was a drunkard and found this scythe on his travels. So, he'd sold it for some pocket change. "

"Hmm... well, now that I got the weapon, I should head home and pack my bag up. Thanks, doc! "

I turned towards the stairs but was held back by the doc. I turned my head.

"Are you going to roam around while carrying that thing in your hand all the time, and don't you want the dexter?"

"Huh? What's that? "

"I thought so. Didn't anybody teach you that dexter is like an identification card for you to register as eligible for an adventurer?"

"Nope, never heard of it?"

"Sigh... Well, no worries, here it is. Remember to always keep it with you. Because not only that is like an id, but it also acts as a digital wallet and here another thing, remember to keep your weapons in this pocket dimension." he said, as he handed me a  red rectangular device similar to an everyday smartphone and black ball.

"Oh! Sure, I'll keep that in mind." I accepted both and said my thanks.

"Thanks again, doc. " with a small bow.

"No, problem. Just be safe. "

"Ok!" and just like that left the doc's clinic and was on my way to Mt kurobo.

After some time, I returned home. This time it took a little longer than I thought.

"You returned! What took you so long? " Danny asked with a smile while holding half of my wardrobe.

"What did you expect? I was on foot." I replied while removing the shoes.

"Huh! Haven't you taken the air scooter with you? " Shit! Just my luck.

"I forgot to take that."

"Hahaha!!, forgot to even wear a t-shirt."

"Ha-ha laughs all you want," I said and head straight to the bathroom.

"So, where is it?" she asked about the weapon I got.

" In the pocket dimension," I answered as I took out the weapon from the black ball.

Woosh!!

"…!? Aren't you good at hand…"

"Yeah, but due to me being late, that's all he had to offer me."

"But is it alright, I don't why but I can't feel any spirit energy from it?"

"Because it has none. It's not a spirit weapon. "

"What!! Isn't that just a useless rod then? "

"Well, no. It could hurt the spirits and spirit users, but for that, you must have to shock them with it directly. "

"Hmm... anything better than nothing. Now that you've got that,  go freshen up, and till then I prepare the breakfast.

I already packed your clothes, medical kit, lunch box, a few snacks, a sleeping bag, and finally a mosquito repellent cream in your bag.

"Thanks, Danny!"

"Ha-ha... Now don't butter me up, just go fresh up. "

"Ok!"

"By the way, did your grandfather tell you when he was going to show up?"

Well, he did say he was going to come before I leave, so... but if he didn't show up by then, I should head without them.

"That jerk! How could he? Don't you worry, I'll be there to see you off. " she said.

"Thanks."

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After I was freshened up, Danny and I ate breakfast together. We talked a lot while eating. After that, I took a few minutes to rest before leaving.

"Ashu! It's about time. I think we should leave before you miss your ship. "

"O-Ok..." I looked in the direction of the clock.

"Leave it; they won't be able to show up now. It's already 1: 30pm now. A little longer and you might not be able to catch your ship. So, hurry! " Danny said in a sad voice.

"Sure, well, I already said my goodbye, so..."

"Have you decided where you are heading first?"

"Yeap! The Kingdom of Partliputra. "

"Why there?"

"It's a good place, and I heard that everybody starts their journey from there, so."

"Ok, well you know better than me."

"So, how are we going to reach the port?"

"Hehe... About that. How about your grandfather's car, isn't it parked in the garage? "

"I'll be... If Grandpa finds out, he's going to butcher us. "

"No, worries. The least he can do after not showing up is offers his ride. "

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"Wow!!" was the only word I could utter. I can't even begin to describe the beauty of this car in words.

Bloody red, with only two sitters. engine outfitted with four nitro boosters

This bad boy has power enough to travel at the speed of sound.

"He does have a good choice in cars at least, don't you think?"

"Yep!"

"Let's roll this puppy up."

We sat and Danny started the engine.

Vroom!!!

The engine was so loud, enough to make my heart tremble with excitement.

Burst!!

We accelerated and the car began to move with so much speed, and in a few half hours, we arrived at the port.

This puppy has a speed of 10,000 km per hour. My hair was all messed up due to the wind.

It truly was a memorable experience.

To be continued...